Past Exhibitions | Smithsonian American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery

2014
Ralph Fasanella: Lest We Forget
Pop Art Prints
Modern American Realism: The Sara Roby Foundation Collection

2013
Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art
Infinite Place: The Ceramic Art of Wayne Higby
A Measure of the Earth: The Cole-Ware Collection of American Baskets
Landscapes In Passing: Photographs by Steve Fitch, Robbert Flick, and Elaine Mayes
A Democracy of Images: Photographs from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Watch This! New Directions in the Art of the Moving Image (3.0)
Thomas Day: Master Craftsman and Free Man of Color
Pictures in the Parlor

2012
Nam June Paik: Global Visionary
The Civil War and American Art
40 under 40: Craft Futures
Abstract Drawings
African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era, and Beyond
The Art of Video Games
Watch This! New Directions in the Art of the Moving Image (2.0)
Annie Leibovitz: Pilgrimage

2011
Multiplicity
Inventing a Better Mousetrap: Patent Models from the Rothschild Collection
Something of Splendor: Decorative Arts from the White House
Made in Chicago: The Koffler Collection
The Great American Hall of Wonders
History in the Making: Renwick Craft Invitational 2011
To Make a World: George Ault and 1940s America
Close to Home: Photographers and Their Families

2010
Watch This! New Directions in the Art of the Moving Image (1.0)
Alexis Rockman: A Fable for Tomorrow
A Revolution in Wood: The Bresler Collection
John Gossage: The Pond
Telling Stories: Norman Rockwell from the Collections of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Remembering the Running Fence
The Art of Gaman: Arts and Crafts from the Japanese American Internment Camps, 1942-1946
Framing the West: The Survey Photographs of Timothy H. O'Sullivan
Graphic Masters III: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum

2009
What's It All Mean: William T. Wiley in Retrospect
Staged Stories: Renwick Craft Invitational 2009
Graphic Masters II: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Grand Salon Installation-Paintings from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Jean Shin: Common Threads
The Art and Craft of Greene & Greene
1934: A New Deal for Artists

2008
Accommodating Nature: The Photographs of Frank Gohlke
Graphic Masters I: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Modern Masters from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Lino Tagliapietra in Retrospect: A Modern Renaissance in Glass
Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities
Local Color: Washington Painting at Midcentury
Earth and Sky: Photographs by Barbara Bosworth